The Republican journal., 1887-02-03
Mr.. sullivan says that John l.. is a coward,
and DOC" Wilson's wife describes that equally
notorious person as a very bad man indeed.

| notorious person as a very bad man indeed.
IN BRIEF. Mrs. Lemuel d. Jordan Of Els
worth committed suicide Monday forenoon by
drowning. Her husband left home about 10
o'clock to buy something for dinner. On his
return short time after he found his wife
drowned i'll the cstern in the cellar with flat
iron tied about her neck, She has been in poor
health and somewhat Respondent for some
time. but no one had the least suspicion that
She contemplated suicide She and her hlls-
band Were excellent citizens and highly respec-
ted by all. Her age was about .J.....D Daniel
Reed. lh2 wears Old Dec. Is last. died at his
| home in Madison sunday evening. He was
born in Abingdon, Mass, and came to Maine
IN ~. .....:.lhc invitations are out for the
Legislative Ball in Granite Hall, Augusta, on
the evening of February 7th.....The jury in
the Emnon> unacy trial at Washington has
rendered a verdict that Mrs. EmmonS is sane
and capable of managing her own atlairs.....
Curtis Davis. the well known soap man, died
| in Cambridge. Mass. S,nday. The cashier of
| Germana Bank. Jersey City, n. j.. has fled
with so 900 of the banks fun,l>......The steam
mill at Nanceboro owned by the W Wooden Ware
company was burned Saturday night. Loss
$4,000. One hundred men are thrown out of
employment ...Edward Un"er of New York,
the reported murderer of August BOIL, whose
body was found last week in a trunk shipped
to Baltimore, has made a full confession of the
crllne......A cablegram has been received in OF
tawa stating that England will send over six
| men-"f-War III the spring to assist in the pro-
lection Of the Canadian fisheries. 1.-The British
steamer Blairathol has foundered in the Black
sea. Twenty lives We're lost.......Mr Charles
L. lll>ley, the founder of the Portland Trans
cript. died at Cambridge Mass, on Saturday
He was 81 Years old...."..At the meeting of the
directors OF the Maine Central on THURSDAY, the
usual sem-annual dividend of 50 a share was
declared. payable Feb. 18th, to stockholders of
record of Feb. 1st.......The committee on State
printing met Monday evening and finally
| awarded the contract to Sprague & Son, the
firm WHO have been doing the work The
decrease Of the public debt for the month of
january Is S9.,o0, OO0....Capt. Henry Spauldng,
OF south lhonaston, prominent Democrat,
anu retired master mariner, died suddenly of
heart trouble, Monday evening, aged y years.
He served in the State Senate and House of
Representatives and was town treasurer and
>eec'man seven years...-.A hearing in the
case OF blackstone. the Portland defaulter il in
progress at Winnipeg. He is likely to be extra
dlcted ......A bill was introduced in the Senate
MONDAY by senator Frye, apprOpriating So, OOC
1ofthe erection OF monument to the memory
OF Mayor General Henry Knox, of Thomaston,
Malhe....l he agreement between the X. of L..
ana Rockland lime manufacturers which eX-
pred Monday has been continued for another
year: Kiln men receive 81 per day"...O'Nea,
another of the \. Y. Doodle aldermen has been
found guilty by the jury......A new phase of
the New DIRK labor strike is that the strikers
VIII refuse TO pay rent to landlords and put the
money into fund to support strikcrs.......
Reagan has been elected L. S. Senator from
Texas.